--- title: "Hybrid Cloud for Financial Services | Pico" description: "The benefit of public cloud with Pico technology and services: secure extension of on-prem hosted facilities to major cloud providers with managed connectivity and Corvil monitoring." source: https://www.pico.net/products/market-services/infrastructure/cloud-services/hybrid-cloud/ markdown_url: https://www.pico.net/products/market-services/infrastructure/cloud-services/hybrid-cloud.md --- # Hybrid Cloud The benefit of public cloud with Pico technology and services: a secure extension of on-prem hosted facilities to major cloud providers with managed elastic compute, storage, serverless functions, and all major cloud services. - Seamless extension of on-prem colocation to AWS, Azure, and GCP - Managed connectivity with financial-grade perimeter security - Corvil Analytics monitoring across both on-prem and cloud environments - Elastic compute, storage, and serverless functions via secure PicoNet™ connectivity ## What is Pico Hybrid Cloud? Pico Hybrid Cloud presents the benefits of public cloud to financial services firms by providing a secure extension to on-prem hosted facilities. Major cloud services, including managed elastic compute, storage, serverless functions, and container orchestration, are offered via secure PicoNet™ connectivity with financial-grade perimeter security and Corvil Analytics monitoring. This eliminates the tradeoff between cloud agility and the performance and security requirements of financial trading workloads. ## Capabilities and related services ### Managed Connectivity Secure, low-latency connectivity between on-prem colocation and public cloud providers via PicoNet™ backbone. ### Corvil Monitoring Same Corvil Analytics telemetry across on-prem and cloud: equal visibility eliminates finger-pointing. ### Public Cloud Direct managed connectivity to AWS, Azure, and GCP with secured VPCs and Corvil monitoring. ### Private Cloud Dedicated hardware private cloud with high-performance flash storage in secure global data centers. ### PicoNet™ The ultra-low latency global network backbone that connects on-prem and cloud environments. ## Hybrid cloud use cases ### Cloud bursting for analytics - Keep trading engines co-located while extending analytics workloads to elastic cloud compute - Scale compute for risk calculations, backtesting, and end-of-day processing ### Disaster recovery - Cloud-based DR for on-prem trading infrastructure with managed failover - Cost-effective warm standby without duplicating colocation hardware ### Development and testing - Spin up cloud dev/test environments connected to production market data - Same Corvil monitoring in dev as production for realistic performance testing ## Frequently asked questions Everything you need to know about Pico Hybrid Cloud. ### What is Pico Hybrid Cloud? Pico Hybrid Cloud extends your on-prem colocation environment to major public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) via secure PicoNet™ connectivity. It combines the agility and scale of public cloud with the performance, security, and proximity benefits of Pico-managed data centers, all monitored by Corvil Analytics for equal visibility across both environments. ### How is security managed in a hybrid deployment? All hybrid cloud connectivity passes through financial-grade firewalls with IDS/IPS, managed by Pico's Information and Cyber Security team. Layered security controls protect the boundary between on-prem and cloud environments. Corvil Analytics provides packet-level monitoring across both environments for consistent security visibility. ### Which cloud providers does Pico support? Pico provides managed connectivity to AWS, Azure, and GCP with on-premise cloud-native options including AWS Outpost, Google Anthos/GKE, and Azure Stack. PicoNet™ delivers up to 10Gbps connectivity with redundant and diverse network access. ### How does Corvil monitoring work in hybrid environments? Corvil provides the same level of telemetry across on-prem and cloud environments. This equality of visibility dramatically reduces time to fix issues and eliminates finger-pointing between on-prem and cloud parties, a capability unique to Pico in the industry. ### What cloud services are available in a hybrid deployment? Managed elastic compute, storage, serverless functions, and container orchestration from major cloud providers, all accessible via secure PicoNet™ connectivity with financial-grade perimeter security. ### Can I keep latency-sensitive workloads on-prem while using cloud for other tasks? Yes. Hybrid cloud is designed for exactly this scenario. Trading engines and market data systems remain co-located near exchange matching engines for minimum latency, while analytics, risk management, back-office processing, and disaster recovery extend to the cloud for elastic scale. ### How does Pico Hybrid Cloud differ from public cloud? Hybrid cloud combines on-prem colocation proximity with cloud agility, ideal when you need some workloads close to exchanges and others in elastic cloud. Public cloud provides direct managed access to cloud providers without on-prem infrastructure, suited for firms that want to move entirely to cloud or do not require co-located trading. ## Build your hybrid cloud infrastructure Talk to a Pico specialist about extending your trading infrastructure to the cloud with financial-grade security and monitoring.